The Honda CB500 twin was a family of medium-sized standard motorcycles that Honda built from 1993 until 2003 around a 499 cc parallel twin engine with double overhead camshafts. Low running cost, reliability and good handling made the bikes popular with commuters and motorcycle couriers, and they were raced in the United Kingdom in the one-make Honda CB500 Cup, which was renamed Thundersport 500 in 2009 when rival 500 cc twins from other makers were admitted. The range grew through lettered model years: a naked CB500R arrived in 1994, the CB500T and CB500V followed, production moved to Italy in late 1996, and a half-faired CB500S joined in 1998. Honda engineers designed the engine to last 300,000 km, and a French magazine test bike bore this out. Production ended in 2003 because the engines could not meet Euro 2 emission rules. It is a different motorcycle from the earlier four-cylinder CB500 Four and the 1975 CB500T twin.
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Engine499 cc parallel twin DOHC 1 Connections
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produced by Honda from 1993 until 2003
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a family of medium-sized standard motorcycles
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Production of the first CB500 twin range ceased in 2003
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499 cc parallel twin DOHC engine was designed to last for 300,000 km
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produced by Honda from 1993 until 2003
Model history, 1994
Made in Japan.
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Honda CB500 twins were a family of medium-sized standard motorcycles produced by Honda from 1993 until 2003.
In Group: Standard and Naked Motorcycles, Lead, standard motorcycles
Honda CB500 twins were a family of medium-sized standard motorcycles
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medium-sized standard motorcycles produced by Honda
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